Rhyme-motivated compounds are usually composed of two elements. The major motivating factor is the rhyme, e.g. flower-power; or brain-drain. Formation of .................... ..................compounds is a very productive process excessively used in advertising or journalese style and, consequently in everyday speech.

Phraseological unities are word-groups with a completely changed meaning, that is, the meaning of the unit does not correspond to the meanings of its constituent parts. They are ...................................... or, putting it another way, the meaning of the whole unit can be deduced from the meanings of the constituent parts.

Lexicography, the science of dictionary-compiling, is closely connected with lexicology, both dealing with the same problems — the form, meaning, usage and origin of vocabulary units — and making ...................... of each other’s achievements.

Phraseology is the study of set expressions called phraseological units. These "set expressions" are ..........................................................idiomatic and reproduced in speech as ready-made units.

Lexicology is a branch of linguistics which studies the …………………………… of a language

Some English words can change their word class ........................................................ their form. Thus, they can function as nouns (e.g. a mother) or as verbs (to mother somebody) without any affixes or inflections. Such change of a word class without any derivative means is called conversion.

Lexicology is a branch of linguistics, the …………………… of language.